With 'friends' like that, who needs enemies used to be an old favourite saying. Somewhere along the line in that friendship one has been disappointed by the other. That is, their expectation was unfulfilled. This person is still projecting their expectations onto another. There are factual aspects in it, and opinion in it, and as with all things we are all free to take in what we want to, and let go the rest. It's the same with ET's work, no different.

I did find the didn't live on a park bench information interesting, because years ago here in a topic on Dan Millman's book The Life You Were Born To Live I noted that Dan Millman, also author of The Peaceful Warrior, used an analogy of a man bemoaning his life while sitting on a park bench in a section of his book called The Law of the Present Moment.